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Date:      Sat, 02 Nov 2002 18:20:04 -0600 (CST)
From:      Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net>
To:        Ned Wolpert <wolpert@codeheadsystems.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Upgrading 4.7-stable to -current question
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20021102182004.conrads@cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <1036275918.297.8.camel@wolpert.codeheadsystems.com>

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On 02-Nov-2002 Ned Wolpert wrote:
> Folks-
> 
>   I've ran into problem upgrading to -current from RELENG_4 after the
> 'make installkernel' process.  One the kernel was installed, I rebooted.
> However, the old 4.7 kernel was loaded instead of the new -current
> kernel.  I read from the archive about how the old /modules directory
> can cause problems, when loading the 5.x kernel, but that's not the
> issue since the wrong kernel was loaded in the first place.  Now, when I
> forced /boot/kernel/kernel, the system failed completely. (No error
> message, the loading never occurred as the whole system froze.)  Could
> that have been from the old /modules directory?
> 
>   Anyways, the question is when doing an upgrade, what's the best method
> to update the loader?  It isn't installed by default. (From what I could
> tell)

Read the UPDATING file very carefully.  You'll see that one of the steps in
upgrading from 4.x to 5.0 is updating the boot blocks.

-- 
Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net>

"Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying
around, I'd rather lie around.  No contest."
                -- Eric Clapton


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